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Four 2-month-old leopard cubs peer out from a cage after Thai police found them and other animals in luggage at Suvarnabhumi Airport. A United Arab Emirates citizen who allegedly attempted to travel with the animals in his luggage was arrested.

The next crew bound for the International Space Station, U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, pose before their final preflight exam at a space training center outside Moscow. The crew is to blast off in a Soyuz spacecraft on June 7.

A protester with his face painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag prays at Tahrir Square. Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday to push their military rulers to do more to help Palestinians.

Egyptian demonstrators hold the flags of Arab nations at Cairo's Tahrir Square during a protest calling for national unity after attacks on Egyptian churches, and solidarity with the Palestinians as they mark the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" which befell them following Israel's establishment in 1948.

A masked Palestinian youth throws a fire bomb toward Israeli forces during clashes following Friday prayers in Arab East Jerusalem as Israeli police flooded the streets of Jerusalem, fearing violence as Palestinians began marking the "Nakba," or "catastrophe," of Israel's establishment in 1948.

A woman walks past an urban art sculpture at Sanlitun SOHO residential and commercial complex in Beijing. China's economic growth could slow to 8%, Goldman Sach's Jim O'Neill said Thursday, as economic data and a drop in commodity prices point to Beijing ending its monetary tightening policy sometime this year.

People lay chrysanthemums during an official commemoration on the third anniversary of China's Sichuan earthquake in Beichuan. The magnitude-8 earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and 5 million homeless.

Former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk is taken out of the Land court. Demjanjuk, 91, a retired auto worker and former U.S. citizen, received a five-year sentence for his role as an SS guard at a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The court found him guilty of being an accessory to at least 28,060 murders, mostly of Jews, at Sobibor camp during 1943.

The Panamanian-registered ship MV Double Prosperity remains stuck at Bakud Reef after running aground Sunday, more than 2 miles off Sarangani province in the southern Philippines. Officials say the coal-laden ship destroyed a large portion of a marine sanctuary in Sarangani Bay.

Cars are crushed by debris after a magnitude 5.1 quake that killed at least eight people and toppled buildings into the streets. Thousands of terrified Lorca residents spent a night shivering in parking lots, public squares and playgrounds, fearing aftershocks.

A Bosnian Muslim cries near the coffin of her relative during a mass funeral for Bosnian Muslims in Bratunac, northeast of Sarajevo. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims attended a funeral for 16 men, women and children killed by Bosnian Serb forces at the beginning of the 1992-95. All of the bodies had recently been exhumed from a mass grave and identified by DNA.

The details of the Scorpius constellation, right, and the Milky Way are shown in an image produced by Nick Risinger, of Skysurvey.org, who compiled more than 37,000 exposures taken in different locations around the world. Risinger traveled more than 60,000 miles by air and land for more than a year to produce this image.

A wax figure of Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow sets sail for Madame Tussauds New York aboard the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor. The Times Square attraction took Sparrow, or his wax figure at least, out to sea to celebrate the release of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," which opens next week.

Afghan security officials inspect an Afghan Army helicopter that crashed in Paroon district of eastern Nuristan province. Afghan Army helicopter crashed and injured nine soldiers in Parun district when it was carrying reinforcement after hundreds of insurgents attacked a police base in same area on 10 May, sparking a fierce battle, officials said.

Protesters are covered in magenta dye sprayed by police attempting to control demonstrations in the Ugandan capital. President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to crush the protests and has blamed rising food and fuel costs on drought and global increases in oil prices.

Parts for a 6-speed transmission wait to be installed at the GM Toledo transmission plant. The company announced it will build a new 8-speed transmission at this plant as part of a plan to invest about $2 billion in U.S. plants, creating or preserving more than 4,000 jobs at 17 facilities in eight states.

A woman walks past a display window at the BBC's new MediaCity headquarters near Manchester. Several thousand jobs are being transferred from London to the new facility on the site of Salford's derelict former docklands.

An aerial view of privately-owned North Island, part of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles. Real estate mogul Farhad Vladi, based in Germany, has said he rented the island to the Windsors, claiming that Prince William and his bride would be honeymooning there. The office of Seychelles' president James Michel would not confirm that the royal couple had arrived or planned to do so, but noted they had previously visited the tropical paradise.

View of the Monumenta 2011 exhibit, entitled "Leviathan," by British artist Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais in Paris. The installation is presented in the nave of the Grand Palais for the Monumenta 2011 exhibition until June 23.

Conjoined female twin babies undergo an ultrasound examination. They were born May 5 in Suining city, Sichuan province, and were moved to Chongqing in preparation for an operation. Two previous ultrasound scans, in September 2010 and February, reported a single embryo until a check May 3 found the twins were conjoined.

An Italian soldier helps remove rubbish piling up in an eastern suburb. The Italian army has come to Naples to help the city deal with its continuing rubbish collection crisis, a week before elections in the country's third largest city.

A woman smiles during an audition for the television show "China's Got Talent" downtown. China's version of the internationally popular television talent show will start its second season with more than 5,000 applicants and with an estimated audience of more than 35.5 million people.

People stroll past the Bank of Greece in Athens. The country was in talks with Eurozone partners on ways to fill a 27-billion euro ($39 billion) deficit next year as a new credit rating cut on Monday made its return to financial markets even more difficult.

Against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, Berne Union High School students Olivia Eckols, from left, Emily Carlo and Maria Camacho practice their auxiliary techniques during a color guard clinic. The sunshine and mild temperatures are a welcome respite for Ohioans who have experienced record rainfall in recent weeks.

Pedestrians walk past one of the city's Apple Stores fafter an announcement that Apple has become the world's most valuable brand. In a report released by London-based Millward Brown, Apple Inc. has surpassed Google to claim the top spot in a global ranking, with an estimated value of more than $153 billion.

A woman throws flowers near the World War II memorial while police block the memorial to prevent clashes between members of Ukrainian nationalist organizations and Victory Day celebrants. In Ukraine, the use of Russian symbols on Victory Day -- with red hammer-and-sickle banners hung from government buildings -- has stirred anger and resentment.

Egyptian Coptic Christian priests perform a mass prayer at a church burned in weekend clashes to honor those killed in fighting between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood. The fresh clashes between Muslims and Christians left 12 dead and more than 230 people injured.

Young residents of the informal Masiphumelele shack settlement peer out of a newly erected shack after it was rebuilt within a week following a fire that devastated 1,500 homes in Cape Town. Housing and the lack thereof is one of the major issues facing the ruling African National Congress and its opposition parties leading up to the May 18, 2011, municipal elections in South Africa.

An anti-government protester flees as police use a water cannon to disperse protesters demanding the ouster of Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemeni forces opened fire on protesters blockading a government building on Monday, killing a shopkeeper in a city that has seen some of the largest rallies seeking to oust Saleh, witnesses said.

A referee accidentally pushes Slovakia's Miroslav Satan's face as he tries to break up a fight between Satan and Denmark's Jesper Jensen during their qualifying-round game at the Ice Hockey World Championships.

The silhouette of a woman can be seen in the reading room of the German National Library prior to the opening ceremony for the fourth extension of the building. The construction took more than five years to be completed. The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic center of Germany.

A model served as the canvas for New Zealand artist Men Bourk and Chinese painter Ren Zhongni at a body-painting festival in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The artists combined various icon images of Auckland and Chongqing into their paintings.

The Week in Pictures | May 9-15, 2011

Young leopard cubs peer inquisitively from their cage at Bangkok International Airport after Thai police thwarted a high-profile attempt to smuggle rare and exotic animals to Dubai; in Kolkata, India, Trinamool Congress party supporters celebrate after early election results gave party leader Mamata Banerjee an overwhelming lead; and on the outskirts of Moscow, the next crew headed to the International Space Station prepares for its June 7 blast-off.

Protesters find themselves covered in magenta dye sprayed by police attempting to control demonstrations against higher prices in the Ugandan capital of Kampala; on the French Riviera, luxury yachts are moored in the port of Cannes the evening before the opening of the 64th Cannes Film Festival; while in New York City, dancers audition for the Rockettes’ Christmas special at Radio City Music Hall.

Across the pond, a giant image of a tiny goldfish is part of the window display at the BBC’s new headquarters near Manchester; a pair of young meerkats explore their zoo enclosure in Germany with a touch of trepidation; the Hang Gliding World Championships are underway near the German-Austrian border; while in Toledo, Ohio, transmission parts wait in line to get into gear at a GM assembly plant.

Four degrees south of the equator and a thousand miles east of Africa, privately owned North Island, part of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles, is seen from the air. It’s said that the island was rented to the Windsors for William and Kate’s honeymoon in paradise, albeit belated.

This is just a glimpse of our Week in Pictures; we have many more images from around the world for you to enjoy.